Up early and off in David and Barbara’s car for a round trip of 360 klm to visit and return from Lake Ballard, to the north. Lake Ballard is a salt encrusted dried lake where an Englishman has created and erected 51 statues across the dried lake surface. The statues have been modelled on local residents of nearby communities. We all take time and wander around taking in a percentage of the statues – adult male and females, as well as children.
On the way and return we come across a number of historic gold mining towns that in their “ hayday” supported sizeable population, pubs and service stores. The telegram boy would travel by push-bike for hundreds of miles to deliver a single telegram.
We arrived back in Kalgoorlie circa 2.00pm, where we book in for a tour by the Madame of Casa Questa, one of the remaining two brothels in Kalgoorlie. The 3.30pm tour is so popular that us four plus another couple are asked to come back at 4.30pm. The Madame provides a historical insight of the industry and how it fitted into Kalgoorlie in the early mining days and was subsequently quarantined and consolidated in Hay Street. It was very informative and entertaining, including a tour of the starting stalls and the “working rooms”. Our tour went for circa 1 hour 20 minutes.
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